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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch-independent syscalls to return long
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:46, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> On 21 Mar 2003 01:51:50 -0500 Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
> 
> | -extern asmlinkage int sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
> | +extern long sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
> 
> keep the asmlinkage (or why not?)

I always that it did not matter, but Arjan just pointed out otherwise
(as you saw).  So I guess these need to be reverted.

There are a handful of other such cases around the kernel...

	Robert Love

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